A25(M) crash in Hertsmere on 4 September 1999 at 09:26 involving an Austin Montego
An Austin Montego crashed on the A25(M) in Hertsmere at 09:26 on Saturday 4 September 1999. The 56-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Sep 1999
- Saturday, 09:26
- Vehicles
- 1
- Austin Montego
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.68435, longitude -0.22217, in the EN6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199901SC01282
- Council area
- Hertsmere
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A(M)
- First road number
- 25
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 October 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the M25 in Hertsmere, 26 October 1984
At the same spotRef 198401SA00804
Slight
Lorry crash on the M25 in Hertsmere, 26 October 1984
At the same spotRef 198401SA00800
Serious
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the M25 in Hertsmere, 23 October 1993
10 m awayRef 199301SA00801
Slight
Car crash on the M25 in Hertsmere, 24 January 1985
14 m awayRef 198501SA00052
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the M25 in Hertsmere, 30 April 1997
14 m awayRef 199701SA00360
Serious
ERF crash on the M25 in Hertsmere, 9 September 1999
14 m awayRef 199901SA00351
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Austin Montego
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Austin Montego)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 199901SC01282 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hertsmere road accident statistics for 1999.